Mohnish Pabrai Quotes

• You know, my degrees are in computer engineering. I spent a lot of time in the tech industry. And I like to say that I don’t invest in tech because I spent time in it. And I saw firsthand that the durability of technology moats is many times an oxymoron.

  Mohnish Pabrai

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Degrees, Engineering

• We Americans love original ideas. But truly, there are already plenty of good ones out there, ours for the taking. If I were too proud to copy the ideas of others, I likely wouldn’t have even a fraction of my current success.

  Mohnish Pabrai

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Original, Truly

• People see poverty all around them in India, but they are desensitized or immune to it. I came to the conclusion that poverty is driven by lack of education.

  Mohnish Pabrai

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Poverty, Conclusion

• Industries with rapid change are the enemy of the investor. Tech businesses, particularly biotech, is a problem from that point of view. All industries work with change, but you should ideally be investing in businesses with a low rate of change, not a high rate of change.

  Mohnish Pabrai

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Investor, Industries

• Basically if you study entrepreneurs, there is a misnomer: People think that entrepreneurs take risk, and they get rewarded because they take risk. In reality entrepreneurs do everything they can to minimize risk. They are not interested in taking risk. They want free lunches and they go after free lunches.

  Mohnish Pabrai

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Basically, Rewarded

• Mistakes are the best teachers. One does not learn from success. It is desirable to learn vicariously from other people’s failures, but it gets much more firmly seared in when they are your own.

  Mohnish Pabrai

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Desirable, Teachers

• There is no such thing as a value trap. There are investing mistakes.

  Mohnish Pabrai

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Trap, Investing

• The problem most nonprofits have is that they are run by romantics who are great to hang out with, but they have no clue.

  Mohnish Pabrai

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Romantics, Problem

• The good news in investing is there are no HR problems. If there are no humans, there are no problems!

  Mohnish Pabrai

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in News, Investing

• I think a lot of people are getting more serious about how to do the most good, but there is no road map. I’m hoping I can offer an example.

  Mohnish Pabrai

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Serious, Hoping

• I have a hard time getting past the day without the nap, so the nap is a must.

  Mohnish Pabrai

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Getting, Nap

• Entrepreneurs are great at dealing with uncertainty and also very good at minimizing risk. That’s the classic great entrepreneur.

  Mohnish Pabrai

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Uncertainty, Classic

Mohnish Pabrai (12)

Birth:	12th June, 1964
Nationality:	American, Indian
Profession:	Businessman, Investor, Philanthropist

About

Mohnish Pabrai is an Indian-American businessman, investor, and philanthropist. Pabrai worked with Tellabs between 1986–91, first in its high speed data networking group, and then in 1989, joined its international subsidiary, working in international marketing and sales.

Related Authors

• Darren Criss
• David Thomas Jones
• George J. Mitchell, Jr.
• Scott Cook
• Chris Anderson
• John DeLorean
• Paul J. Meyer
• Eric Snow
• Brian Mulroney
• Henry John Heinz

Advertisement

Today's Anniversary - 22nd December

Births

• 1823 - Thomas Wentworth Higginson
• 1972 - Vanessa Paradis
• 1831 - Mark Rutherford
• 1957 - Susan Powter
• 1943 - Paul Wolfowitz

Deaths

• 1899 - Dwight L. Moody
• 1906 - Robert Rainy
• 1987 - Sir Henry Thomas Cotton
• 1943 - Beatrix Potter
• 1989 - Samuel Beckett